Rod Rosenstein

Rod Jay Rosenstein (13 January 1965-) was the US Deputy Attorney General from 26 April 2017 to 11 May 2019, succeeding Sally Yates and preceding Jeffrey A. Rosen.

Biography
Rod Jay Rosenstein was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on 13 January 1965, and he graduated summa cum laude from the Wharton School of Economics in 1986 and cum laude from Harvard in 1989. From 1990 to 1993, he worked as a trial attorney with the Public Integrity Section of the Criminal Division of the US Department of Justice under Assistant Attorney General Robert Mueller. He worked with independent counsel Ken Starr on the Whitewater investigation against Bill Clinton. Rosenstein became Assistant US Attorney for the District of Maryland in 1997, and, from 2001 to 2005, he served as the Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General for the Tax Division of the Department of Justice. From 12 July 2005 to 26 April 2017, he served under George W. Bush, Barack Obama, and Donald Trump as US Attorney for the District of Maryland. In April 2017, the US Senate confirmed Rosenstein as Trump's Deputy Attorney General, serving under Attorneys-General Jeff Sessions and William Barr. He oversaw the Mueller investigation into Trump, souring relations between them, and he attempted to resign after a 21 September 2018 New York Times story reported that Rosenstein wanted to tape conversations between himself and Trump to help the investigation. On 7 November 2018, Trump stripped Rosenstein of control over the investigation, and, on 29 April 2019, Rosenstein's resignation as Deputy Attorney General was accepted, taking effect on 11 May.